Re: Interview with Hans on KernelTrap

[Yiannis Mavroukakis <jander@darthvader.us>]

Peter Foldiak wrote:

> Hans, in the interview you give the example:
>
>  cat /home/reiser/mp3s/..../childcat > /dev/dsp
>
> to illustrate concatenation.
> [...]
>  
> The convention (I think also approved(suggested?) by Linus at some 
> point) could be that where you say
>
>  /home/reiser/mp3s
>
> you get a the file (or concatenation, if the directory has no "file" 
> content itself), but when you say
>
>  /home/reiser/mp3s/
>
> (with the trailing "/"), you get the directory.
>
If cool is the first perceived benefit, then why do it ? Besides, it's 
quite easy through force of habit or mistype to add a '/'

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